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Welcome to Polls Apart

At every election, thousands of disabled voters are denied the chance to play an equal part in our democracy. Scope’s ‘Polls Apart’ campaign aims to end this exclusion.

step causing an access barrier in a polling station doorway
Mind the step! At every election, thousands of disabled voters are denied the chance to play an equal part in our democracy. Scope’s ‘Polls Apart’ campaign aims to end this exclusion.

How accessible was the 2010 election?

At the 2010 election, we asked people to tell us about the accessibility of their voting experience. Over a thousand people did just that and we have used this feedback as the basis for a report about how inclusive the general election was – here’s what we found

Comment on your polling station

By constituency

By postcode

Wheelchair user putting vote into ballot box
Reproduced with kind permissions of the Electoral Commission